"I'm losing everything."
"It has been very hard. It has affected my daughter psychologically, first her mother was arrested, then her father. She feels anxiety. She doesn't want to go to school. I am scared to go to the store."
A 19-year-old freshman, Lucia Lopez Belloza, was arrested by federal ICE agents at Logan airport on 20 November and deported to Honduras within 48 hours, shackled at waist, ankles and wrists. She had been on a business scholarship at Babson College and left Honduras at age seven seeking asylum. Masked men in dark cars are conducting immigration raids at traffic stops, supermarkets and courthouses, generating fear in communities. Teachers report thousands of empty desks as immigrant families keep children home. An Ecuadorian couple who suffered human trafficking were detained despite applying for T non-immigrant status; their seven-year-old daughter now experiences anxiety and avoids school. The husband claims he was labor trafficked in New York, forced to work long, often unpaid, shifts.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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